(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Credit card firm Visa (www.visa.com) announced on Monday it has opened a new 370,000-square-foot global data center in the United States.
The press release did not indicate the exact location of the site, only that it lies somewhere in the “Eastern United States”.
With the opening of the new data center, the company now has two synchronized data centers in North America, each capable of carrying Visa’s entire global payments volume in the event of a natural disaster or systems outage.
The company now has a global network of four data centers on three continents, which ultimately connects more than 16,000 financial institutions.
With more than 140,000 square feet of raised floor space, the data center is designed to support multiple authorization engines and process hundreds of millions of transactions each day.
The facility houses some of the payments industry’s most advanced payment processing services and can handle more than 10,000 transaction messages per second.
Along with the data center opening, Visa has made several IT enhancements, including the implementation of a new operating system that underpins its global transaction processing network, VisaNet.
The combined technology further enhance the flexibility, reliability and scale of VisaNet, and increase Visa’s ability to process the growing number of increasingly complex electronic payments around the world, says the company.
Partnering with IBM, Visa has also developed a new 64-bit operating system called z Transaction Processing Facility, which lets the company manipulate more information at once and perform more complex processing functions in milliseconds.
This gives Visa the capability to deliver new, information-intensive applications such as advanced fraud analysis, and mobile payments and services.
“Visa’s commitment to continuous technology upgrades differentiates us from competitors and helps Visa play a key role in facilitating the migration to electronic payments,” says Mike Dreyer, chief information officer at Visa. “Few people recognize the critical role VisaNet plays in supporting our extensive brand acceptance, securing our products and facilitating payment innovation. As we activate our second new data center in four years and complete a transition to the latest information technology, we are laying the foundation for the future of Visa payments and related services.”
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